This minicourse in our Lesson-On-Demand format is part of a series on Project Management Professional Certification 2005. You will learn about the Project initiation, which consists of the Project’s initiating processes, charter and purpose, selection methods, and management methodology. This minicourse is short enough to fit easily into your busy schedule with little disruption to your daily workflow.

The Project Management Professional Certification 2005 course has the tools you need to be an efficient Project Manager. Expert Michael Solomon guides you to through the basic fundamentals of high level project management. In this course you will discover what defines a project life cycle, how project management process mapping works and how to develop a project scope statement. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge to successfully define and execute projects while gaining a strong understanding of administrative or contract closure.

Michael Solomon, CISSP, PMP, TICSA, is a speaker, consultant and trainer who specializes in project management and database application-level security topics. Since 1987 Solomon has worked on IT projects or instructed for more than 60 organizations including EarthLink, Nike, Lucent Technologies, BellSouth, UPS, Boart Longyear, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Solomon holds an MS in Computer Science from Emory University (1998), and a BS in Computer Science from Kennesaw State University (1987) where he was also an instructor from 1998 - 2001. He has been a contributor to various certification books.